Chapter 11 Unemployed Fishermen

Chapter 11 Unemployed Fishermen

Chapter 11 Unemployed Fishermen
There has been new progress in the case.

There is surveillance camera at the entrance of the dog meat restaurant. The comrades from the field team took the surveillance SD card and rushed back.

After finishing the transcript, Du Yu sat in the office with Xu Yiqing and made himself a cup of instant coffee... He had stayed up all night again last night.

Du Yu asked: "What did you see?"

Xu Yiqing thought for a moment and said, "That boss likes Li Yueyue, and his wife doesn't know about it... So Li Yueyue should also be unaware of it and is secretly in love with him."

Du Yu was stunned: "How can you tell that?"

Xu Yiqing smiled: "Intuition."

Du Yu touched his forehead and asked, "Does this have anything to do with the case?"

"Just pretend there is nothing, after all, it's just my guess." Xu Yiqing stopped joking and said seriously, "Then tell me something useful. Judging from the fact that Li Yueyue only bought half a pound of meat, she didn't plan to entertain guests for dinner. In other words, the acquaintance who took action first was a sudden visitor."

Du Yu nodded: "A person who came to visit suddenly, someone Li Yueyue knew, and they had a deep hatred for each other."

Xu Yiqing said: "The old man that the dog meat restaurant owner mentioned is a major suspect."

After all, after investigating so many interpersonal relationships, this is the first person who has quarreled with Li Yueyue, which shows how popular she is.

Soon, the police officers from the field team came back with an SD card containing two video clips.

One video was the video that Li Yueyue bought at the dog meat shop the day before her death, and the other was the video of Li Yueyue arguing with someone on that day, according to the owner of the dog meat shop.

After discussion, the serious crime team decided to watch the quarrel first to determine whether the other party was a suspect.

As the play button was pressed, the surveillance video began to play, allowing everyone to get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of this case.

The surveillance camera's field of view covers the entrance of the dog meat shop and the entire interior of the shop.

The cracks in the cement floor that are unique to urban villages and the dark marks left by the dried sewage on the roadside come into view.

Electric vehicles often pass by on the road. As the sky gradually darkens, students who have just finished their homework in tutoring centers after school walk by in groups of three or four, wearing autumn school uniforms and carrying backpacks that seem to be filled with bricks, gesticulating with their hands.

Then Li Yueyue appeared.

Du Yu pressed the pause button and said, "Write down the time. It's 19:49 now."

A police officer immediately calculated: "Old City Primary School finishes school at 19 o'clock, and the students in the tutoring program will be gone around o'clock. She walked here from where she works, so the time is right."

Li Yueyue wore a light yellow turtleneck sweater with a white coat on the outside and walked into the dog meat shop.

The boss was playing with his phone. When he saw Li Yueyue coming in, he quickly stood up and smiled: "Are you here?"

"Same as always, half a pound of dog meat, tenderloin required."

Li Yueyue smiled shyly, just like her expression in the photo with her colleagues, she was the same to everyone.

Xu Yiqing was thinking beside him, "Same old, half a catty of meat. This means that half a catty is the amount she usually buys...which means that she always buys and eats it immediately, and doesn't store frozen meat in the refrigerator. Plus the frequency mentioned by the boss and his wife, Li Yueyue doesn't eat dog meat often."

Du Yu stared at the screen and frowned: "If you only bought the meat... and not the bones, then where did the dog skeleton at the crime scene come from?"

Xu Yiqing replied: "Since it wasn't bought by Li Yueyue, it's very likely that the murderer brought it."

Du Yu was puzzled: "If you want to kill someone, then kill them. Why do you have to bring a bunch of dog bones?"

Xu Yiqing patted his shoulder and said, "It's up to you to investigate."

In the surveillance footage, Li Yueyue only spent a short time buying meat, so there was nothing interesting to see in the store’s surveillance.

The focus is on monitoring at the store entrance.

After Li Yueyue walked out of the door, she did not leave immediately, but suddenly stopped as if she met someone, and her face became unpleasant.

It’s just that the man happened to be at the edge of the surveillance blind spot, and one could only see his general clothes and back - a short man.

Then Li Yueyue had a fierce argument with that man.

The man demanded, “When are you moving out!”

Li Yueyue was dissatisfied: "How can this be? I just paid half a year's rent and you told me to move out and you won't return my deposit... Isn't this bullying?"

The man said shamelessly: "I don't care. The house will be demolished after the Chinese New Year. Who knows if you want my house? I tell you, there are so many people like this on the Internet now!"

Li Yueyue argued: "I'm not that kind of person."

The man insisted on kicking her out: "I'll give you one week. If you don't move out, I'll change the locks!" Even a clay man would still be angry, and Li Yueyue finally couldn't stand it anymore. "I've been renting from you for many years. I often make dumplings and cakes for you... It's because I think it's not easy for you to raise your children after your divorce! You're so ruthless and don't give me any way to make a living. No wonder no one has been with you for so many years... I finally understand."

The man seemed to have been poked in a sore spot, and he cursed: "Son of a bitch, who are you scolding? Li, I tell you, you will not have a good death! Tomorrow, tomorrow I will throw all your things into the garbage dump. If you dare not leave, I will see if I can kill you!"

The surveillance ends here. After that, Li Yueyue leaves angrily, and passers-by on the street denounce and criticize the man.

The people in the serious crime squad were talking about it.

"Who is this person?"

"It sounds like Li Yueyue's previous landlord."

"He...he doesn't know that Li Yueyue is Li Dusheng's sister?"

Du Yu analyzed: "It seems that Li Yueyue has not told anyone around her about her brother."

Then he turned to look at Xu Yiqing: "Old Xu's analysis is correct. The possibility of killing Li Yueyue out of anger and revenge because of Li Dusheng has been reduced."

Everyone in the serious crime squad admired Xu Yiqing. Even though they had worked with him for many years and handled many cases, Xu Yiqing's abilities still impressed everyone.

Du Yu clapped his hands, glanced at his watch and said, "We don't have much time left. Now the first person with a motive has appeared. Contact the field team to check this person out."

Xu Yiqing also subconsciously glanced at his watch.

It's already nine o'clock in the morning.

There are only 10 hours until dark.

Time was running out, and Xu Yiqing looked at his autopsy report over and over again in the serious crime team's office.

The blood sample obtained from Li Yueyue's severed head has been sent for testing and found to be consistent with the autopsy results. This means that the clues obtained from the initial autopsy report have been concluded.

Du Yu had his own things to do, and Xu Yiqing, as a forensic doctor, was also trying to play his role.

By comparing the autopsy report, they deal with various clues sent back by the serious crime team's field police at any time, comparing and analyzing them to find new clues that are useful to the case.

Soon all the information about the middle-aged man was gathered here by Du Yu.

The police officer in charge of checking the household registration said, "Captain Du, the man's name is Zhao Qianyu, he's 47 years old this year, and he's a native of Jiangcheng. He's divorced, has a daughter who's 24 years old this year, and is unemployed."

After a while, the police from the field team also called.

"Zhao Qianyu has a very bad reputation in the local area. He is known for being stingy and a gambler. He likes to play cards and gamble. He was detained for this before. I heard from the neighbors in the reconstruction area that Zhao Qianyu has a bad personality and always quarrels with neighbors over trivial matters. Li Yueyue has been renting his house in recent years. A few days ago, he heard that it would be demolished and renovated next year, so he stopped Li Yueyue from renting it."

Du Yu frowned when he heard this: "He has a criminal record! And from the surveillance footage, he and Li Yueyue were arguing on the street. There must be a personal grudge involved... so there must be a motive."

Xu Yiqing was curious: "He is an unemployed vagrant who is also very fond of gambling. Where does he get the money?"

Du Yu talked to the police on the phone for a while, then hung up and said, "There are some discrepancies with the household registration information. Zhao Qianyu just didn't have insurance, so I couldn't find his tax information. In fact, he has a skill in fishing."

The reason why Jiangcheng is called Jiangcheng is because there is a big river running through the city, dividing Jiangcheng into two parts.

Therefore, many districts and counties near the water in the city have fishermen who have been passed down for generations. They usually catch fish, sell them to restaurants and hotels, and then sell them in the seafood market, earning a considerable income.

Du Yu said: "According to the villagers, although Zhao Qianyu is a jerk, he has outstanding fishing skills and is the best fisherman in the area... No wonder he has money to gamble."

He frowned slightly and had no good feelings towards gamblers.

How many cases handled in the past decade or so were caused by gamblers who lost everything they had and ended up on the road of no return?

Jumping off a building, robbing, killing, taking poison...even taking the whole family with them to die.

After coming to his senses, Du Yu suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Xu Yiqing sat aside with his head down, carefully checking the autopsy report.

"What's wrong?" He walked over and asked, "Any clues?"

Xu Yiqing was reading the few new pages of supplementary information added to the autopsy report last night. He added them after he sewed up Li Yueyue's body.

Among them are photos of Li Yueyue’s severed head, full-body photos of her body, and blood test reports.

"Look at this." Xu Yiqing pointed at the photo of Li Yueyue's head near the mandible and said with a serious expression: "The photo may not be clear, but Ah Sheng and I observed at the time and found that there were undamaged strangulation marks... When we were at the scene, we were still wondering what could have caused such fine strangulation marks. Now I understand."

In Du Yu's puzzled look, Xu Yiqing said firmly: "It's a fishing line."

(End of this chapter)